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PDC Book Club
Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 7:00 pm9:30 pm

We will be discussing the Book The Night Manager by John Le Carre on Friday June 10th. Come along to room 324 of Frick Chemistry Laboratory for a lively discussion of literature, as well as food and drink!

Location
Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Room 324
PDC Happy Hour
Wed, May 25, 2022, 6:30 pm6:30 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

PDC Book Club
Fri, May 6, 2022, 7:00 pm9:30 pm

We will be discussing the Book My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman on Friday May 6th. Come along to the Carl A. Fields Center for a lively discussion of literature, as well as food and drink!

Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Tue, May 3, 2022, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

The Princeton Postdoctoral Council will be hosting our second Seminar Series of the spring term next Tuesday May 3rd from noon to 1 pm in room B60B of the Louis A. Simpson International Building.

This month, Ashley Jordan from the Department of Psychology will present a talk titled “…

PDC Happy Hour
Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 6:30 pm6:30 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

The Princeton Postdoctoral Council will be hosting our second Seminar Series of the spring term next Tuesday April 12th from noon to 1 pm in room B60B of the Louis A. Simpson International Building.

This month, Amit Koul from the Department of Molecular Biology will present a talk titled “Distinct…

PDC Book Club
Fri, Apr 8, 2022, 7:00 pm9:30 pm

We will be discussing the Book Almond by Won-pyung Sohn this Friday. Come along to the Carl A. Fields Center for a lively discussion of literature, as well as food and drink!

PDC Happy Hour
Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 6:30 pm6:30 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

The Princeton Postdoctoral Council will be hosting our first Seminar Series of the spring term next Tuesday March 22nd from noon to 1 pm in room B60B of the Louis A. Simpson International Building.

This month, Benjamin Lienhard from the Department of Chemistry will present a talk titled “The…

Location
B60B, Louis A. Simpson International Building
PDC Happy Hour
Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 6:30 pm6:30 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

PDC Book Club
Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 7:00 pm7:00 pm

We will be discussing the Book Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. Come along for a lively discussion of literature, as well as some snacks!

Location
Carl A. Fields Center, Room 105
PDC Happy Hour
Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 6:30 pm6:30 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

PDC Seminar
Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 12:00 pm12:00 pm
Tuesday, Dec 14, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free food!

Postdoc Bookclub
Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 7:00 pm7:00 pm

Join us for an evening discussion of literature! This month the book is 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke. We will meet in The Class of 1952 Room in Frist, at 7pm on December the 3rd.

PDC Happy Hour
Wed, Nov 17, 2021, 6:30 pm6:30 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

PDC Seminar
Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 12:00 pm12:00 pm
Tuesday, Nov 16, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free food!

Postdoc Bookclub
Mon, Oct 4, 2021, 7:00 pm7:00 pm

Join us for an evening discussion of literature! This month the book is 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole. We will meet in The Class of 1952 Room in Frist, at 7pm on October the 4th.

PDC Seminar
Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 12:00 pm12:00 pm
Tuesday, Sep 28, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free food!

PDC Seminar (CANCELED)
Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

PDC Seminar
Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

PDC Seminar
Thu, May 7, 2020, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

PDC Seminar
Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

PDC Seminar
Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Postdoc InterCultural Evening
Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 5:30 pm5:30 pm

To celebrate the diversity of cultures represented in Princeton University’s community of postdocs, researchers, and scholars, the Art Museum and the Postdoctoral Council (PDC) host an intercultural evening featuring music, food, and curator-led tours.

Location
Princeton Art Museum
PDC lunch
Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

New ideas for postdoc events?

Want to practice networking, leadership skills and project management?

Want to shape the future for postdocs in Princeton (or just make it a little more fun in the present)?

Join us for lunch on Thursday, February 13th at 12 pm at Spice…

PDC Seminar
Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

PDC Seminar
Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Postdoc Writing Workshop: Anatomy of an Abstract
Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 9:00 am11:00 am

Anatomy of an Abstract: Teaching the Implicit in Science

Abstracts are deceptive: Short but not simple, they are shaped by expectations that are unnamed but definitive.  Because the expectations are  implicit, new writers usually struggle to discover them, and even experienced writers struggle to name them.  In this workshop, we…

PDC Seminar
Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

Robert Wexler will talk about "A solar cell that sells: the cheap, nontoxic, easy-to-make, but inefficient Cu2ZnSnS4".

Robert is a postdoctoral research associate with…

Location
Hoyt 307
Princeton Pathways into the Academy (for SEAS postdocs)
Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 6:00 pm8:00 pm

Location
Triumph
Academic Job Search Boot Camp for Engineering and Natural Sciences
Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 9:00 am4:00 pm

Are you going on the academic job market this fall or thinking about it for the future?  Join us for a day long workshop on the essentials - CVs, cover letters, teaching philosophy statements, and diversity statements. Hear from a panel of faculty about navigating the academic job search process. Sponsored by the Graduate School, Center for…

Location
Friend Center Convocation Room
Academic Job Search Bootcamp for Humanities and Social Sciences
Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 9:00 am4:00 pm

Are you going on the academic job market this fall or thinking about it for the future?  Join us for a day long workshop on the essentials - CVs, cover letters, teaching philosophy statements, and diversity statements. Hear from a panel of faculty about navigating the academic job search process. Sponsored by the Graduate School, Center for…

Location
Frist 330 McGraw Center
Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

This time, Laurence Lemaire will talk about "Comprehensive single-cell transcriptome lineages of a…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, room 301
River Horse Brewery Tour
Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 4:45 pm8:00 pm

PDC is organizing a tour of the nearby River Horse Brewery (in Ewing) at 5:30PM on Thurs July 18.  After the 45min tour, we’ll head to the tasting room for a free group tasting of 4 different craft beer samples (with appetizers!).  Attendees will also  all receive a free River Horse pint glass…

Location
Ewing
Postdocs with kids!
Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 10:00 am12:00 pm

The Princeton Postdoctoral Council (PDC) will host a social event for postdocs who have children on June 9th, 2019(

Location
The Little Gym
NBA Game - Philadelphia Sixers
Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 5:00 pm11:00 pm

The PDC is organizing a bus trip to Philadelphia to see the Philadelphia Sixers play against the Orlando Magic on Tuesday March 5 at 7PM (the bus will leave Princeton around 5PM).  PDC will provide the bus, and attendees will have to pay for their own ticket to the game (about $30 each).  We’ll all sit together.  The Sixers are a great and…

Musical - Book of Mormon
Sat, Feb 9, 2019, 10:30 am10:30 am

RSVP Required | Space is Limited

Spend the day with other Princeton postdocs, scholars and their families enjoying the Broadway Musical, Book of Mormon in New York City at the Eugene O'Neill Theater.

Bus leaves from Princeton University, in front of Wawa near the Dinky Station at 10:30 a.m.
Show starts at 2.00PM.

Picturing Place in Japan
Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 5:30 pm5:30 pm

The exhibition includes nearly forty paintings, prints, books and photographs, from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries, that collectively explore the varied meaning of place to Japanese artistic practice over these epochs.  To read more about this exhibition, please click

Location
Princeton Art Museum
PDC Happy Hour
Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 6:00 pm6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location
The Ivy Inn
Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

PDC Happy Hour
Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 6:00 pm6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location
The Ivy Inn
Postdoctoral Seminar Series
Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Location
Lewis A. Simpson International Building Room B60B
Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes
Thu, Nov 29, 2018

November is Postdoc Tune-Up month! In association with Princeton Writes, the Princeton Postdoctoral Council (PDC) has organized 60 minute time slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for reviewing job application materials including Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter and Oral Job Pitch. Other documents (e.g., teaching statements) will be…

Location
Dillon Court East
PDC Happy Hour
Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:00 pm6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location
The Ivy Inn
Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes
Wed, Nov 28, 2018

November is Postdoc Tune-Up month! In association with Princeton Writes, the Princeton Postdoctoral Council (PDC) has organized 60 minute time slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for reviewing job application materials including Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter and Oral Job Pitch. Other documents (e.g., teaching statements) will be…

Location
Dillon Court East
Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes
Tue, Nov 27, 2018

November is Postdoc Tune-Up month! In association with Princeton Writes, the Princeton Postdoctoral Council (PDC) has organized 60 minute time slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for reviewing job application materials including Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter and Oral Job Pitch. Other documents (e.g., teaching statements) will be…

Location
Dillon Court East
International Postdoc Thanksgiving Dinner
Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 4:00 pm4:00 pm

The Postdoctoral Council (PDC) and the Davis International Center (Davis IC) are hosting an International Thanksgiving dinner.  All postdocs, scholars and their family and friends are welcome to join us.

A turkey will be sponsored by the Davis IC and some basic drinks (wine, beer and soda) will be provided by PDC. We will get together…

Location
TBA
Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes
Thu, Nov 22, 2018

November is Postdoc Tune-Up month! In association with Princeton Writes, the Princeton Postdoctoral Council (PDC) has organized 60 minute time slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for reviewing job application materials including Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter and Oral Job Pitch. Other documents (e.g., teaching statements) will be…

Location
Dillon Court East
Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes
Wed, Nov 21, 2018

November is Postdoc Tune-Up month! In association with Princeton Writes, the Princeton Postdoctoral Council (PDC) has organized 60 minute time slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for reviewing job application materials including Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter and Oral Job Pitch. Other documents (e.g., teaching statements) will be…

Location
Dillon Court East
Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes
Tue, Nov 20, 2018

November is Postdoc Tune-Up month! In association with Princeton Writes, the Princeton Postdoctoral Council (PDC) has organized 60 minute time slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for reviewing job application materials including Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter and Oral Job Pitch. Other documents (e.g., teaching statements) will be…

Location
Dillon Court East